You’re mixing up Mad Science and sane science here. There needs to be a reasonable end result that has the universe being taken over by the cicada-people of benthlon 4 for that to make sense as an endresult of Mad Science.

An adapter is something I could reasonably see the ‘not-Mad’ Virginia doing, but someone would need to mention it to her. She’s sane in that she can follow directions.

Aimee/Tip ship?
Tip’s ability to mirror people’s interests (geeky or otherwise) should be able to attract even her. His ability to lust-teleport anywhere could get him into her virtual world, if the interest was there. Plus, Tip’s already causing a strong emotional response in Nick, who tends to blush a lot when he’s around. (O.K., yeah, Nick’s ALWAYS blushing.) Why is Nick always saying how much Tip disgusts him? (“I think the lady doth protest too much.”)
All she’d need to do would be to hack into the code for the “purity test” (like James Kirk’s Kobayashi-Maru solution).
Would Tip want her? Who doesn’t he want? (Unless Tigerlily’s mojo’s keeping him very busy…)

See previous discussion of clone-cest between Lazarus Long, Lorelie Lee, and Lapis Lazuli in the great Robert Heinlein’s “Time Enough for Love”. For those who have not already had the pleasure, DEFINITELY read this book (and as many other Heinlein works as you can get your hands on).